I'm Not Really A Mass Market Writer.

I Expect That My Readers Have Been To Europe, I Expect Them To Have Some Feeling For A Foreign Language, I Expect Them To Have Read Books - There Are A Lot Of People Like That! That's My Audience.

One Is What One Has The Nerve To Pretend To Be.

The Best Paris I Know Now Is In My Head.

I Invented The Historical Spy Novel.

I Write What I Call 'novels Of Consolation' For People Who Are Bright And Sophisticated.